The American Naturalist. 
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: 
J. A. ALLEN, PH.D., American Museum of Natural ied ud York. 
E. A. ANDREWS, PH.D., Johns Hopkins University, B. 
WILLIAM S. BAYLEY, PH.D., Colby University, Pic dnd 
CHARLES E. BEECHER, Pu.D., Yale University, New Haven. 
DOUGLAS H. CAMPBELL, Pu.D., Stanford apices 
J. H. COMSTOCK, S.B., Cornell University, Itha 
WILLIAM M. DAVIS, M.E., Harvard Dana: aether: 
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D. S. JORDAN, LL.D., Stanford Unive E 
CHARLES A. KOFOID, PH.D., University = ees Urbana. 
J. G. NEEDHAM, PH.D., Lake Forest Univer. 
ARNOLD E. ORTMANN, PH.D., Princeton ee 
D. P. PENHALLOW, S.B., F.R.M.S., Me Gill Unser — 
H. M. RICHARDS, S.D., Columbia University, New 
W. E. RITTER, Pu.D., See of California, aie 
FRANK RUSSELL, Pu.D., Harvard University, Cambridge. 
ISRAEL C. RUSSELL, LL. D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 
ERWIN F. SMITH, S.D., U. S. Department of Agriculture, ee 
LEONHARD STEJNEGER, Smithsonian Institution, = — ngton 
W. TRELEASE, S.D., Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Lou 
HENRY B. WARD, PH.D., University of Nebraska, Lincol 7. 
WILLIAM M. WHEELER, PH.D., University of Texas, Austin. 
xu e THE AMERICAN NATURALIST is an illustrated monthly magazin 
— - of Natural History, and will aim to present to its readers the te 
. facts and discoveries in Anthropology, General Biology, Zoology, 
Botany, Paleontology, Geology and Physical Geography, and Miner- 
and Petrography. The contents each month will consist of 
: -leading original articles co: containing accounts and discussions of new 
. points of interest, editorial comments on scientific questions of the 
day, critical reviews of recent literature, and a final department for 
scientific news and personal notices. 
- .. All naturalists who have anything interesting to say are invited 
to send in their contributions, but the editors will endeavor to select 
for publication only that which is of truly scientific value and at the 
. Same time written so as to be intelligible, instructive, and interesting 
manuscripts, Son for review, exchanges, e. should be 
siness. communications should be- sent NE to the 
